Domande poste durante i colloqui presso TravelPerk

Candidatura

La procedura ha richiesto più di 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (New York, NY (Stati Uniti d'America)).

Colloquio

Had a first good interview with an external English HR specialist. They sent me a Codility test... it had its complexity, but I wouldn't think that is good enough to know if someone is good or not. I should have seen it coming. Then I had to do the same HR interview again with a HR guy from the company... this time in Spanish, like if that would add anything. Then I had an interview with some "Dave" guy. I was suspicious about speaking to a "Just Dave", like if I were about to speak with Steve Jobs. The interview started really bad because this presumptuous guy said the image was not bright enough... just buy a better monitor, what kind of company are you running? Anyway, they lost my interest from the beggining. After that we reviewed my CV... again... for the third time. OK, this guys really don't know how to hire people and are really insecured people. Then he attempted questions "about technology the candidate knows"... he asked "which ones"... OK, I knew it was a bad company with fake reviews... 5.0 is not really believable, there is a catch.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 1 giorno. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (Barcellona (Spagna)) a settembre 2018.

Colloquio

You just get an email with a link to Codility to bet all your possibilities in a single "happy-idea problem".
They are using Codility in a wrong way: instead of 5 or 10 questions/tests that the platform allows, they send you only 1 problem that tells actually nothing about yourself and your capabilities.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto più di 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (Barcellona (Spagna)) a marzo 2017.

Colloquio

I got the offer through a recruiting agency, and got scheduled a first interview with them.
The experience with the interview was mostly fine and they were supposed to send me a coding test.
One than more year has passed and I have still not received a reply or the expected coding test at all.
They didn't look so serious to me, and I found a complete signal of disrespect this treatment.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto più di 1 settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (Londra, Inghilterra (Regno Unito)) a marzo 2019.

Colloquio

Initial communication was concise but then when it came to the phone interview itself it seemed like the recruiter was rushed and had an opinion of my experience, almost judging.
The company came across extremely arrogant in that it was made clear several times that "we are looking for the right person" almost assuming Travel Perk was the only company I had been interviewing for!
When asked about the company culture the recruiter couldn't stop singing the company's praises, which I found ironic given I had received email confirmation of this interview on a Sunday, and the recruiter was calling we whilst on holiday, hardly sounds like Work-Life balance to me...

Alas, I know I wasn't successful, not because I was told, but because Travel Perk went quiet. Interesting way to conduct oneself there...

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk.

Colloquio

Quick and fast response after applying, really quick and short interview too. Follow up was quick as well. In general felt like an approachable company.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk a maggio 2018.

Colloquio

Very nice and friendly atmosphere! The interview took about 30 minutes and was quiet entertaining, It was fun, talking with the interviewer. The questions were not that difficult but he asked a lot. I had the possibility to ask questions during and after the interview.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto più di 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (Barcellona (Spagna)).

Colloquio

The process took almost a month and they did not know what they were looking for in relation to the candidate. Completely wasting my time. HR were professional but the marketing team are scattered and seemingly have no direction.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (Barcellona (Spagna)) a marzo 2018.

Colloquio

I applied online and was invited to the office after accomploshing several skype interviews. The process itself was professional, however the face 2 face interview has been a little bit akward. I was guided into a very small meeting room where I met the two interviewers. There was no real small talk or a broader introduction. The atmosphere was kind of cold . I needed to accomplish a role play. Before and after the interview the hiring managers always pointed out that they only hire "A-Level-Players" which was kind of inappropriate as we are talking about a software selling startup and not Google or Apple. After two weeks I received an automated email where they told me they are hiring somebody else. I think most startups in Barcelona take themselves way to serious and try to adopt the American startup culture.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (Barcellona (Spagna)) a ottobre 2017.

Colloquio

I really liked the interview process at Travelperk. They seem to be building a great product and are being extra cautious with their growth and team (both very positive signs of stability). They are also willing to go well above the average for Barcelona if you can prove your worth.

Pros:
* Great schedule flexibility (can split over several days or do almost all of it in a single day).
* No complex/tricky brain teasers or obscure algorithms. All questions involved simple things you might have to deal with during your daily work.
* Everyone I met was incredibly nice and knowledgeable, giving you the opportunity of having very interesting discussions, not just answer pre-scripted questions.
* Everything moved very fast: It feels like the bottleneck is the person being interviewed. If you have the required availability, I wouldn't be surprised if you got through the whole process in just a couple of days.

Cons:
* Rather lengthy process: 3 hours at home plus around 7 hours on-site.

Whole process is split in several parts:
* At home:
- Recruiter phone call (0.5hrs): typical getting to know you and the company call.
- Codility test at home (2.5hrs): 3 exercises: warm-up exercise, simple peformance-focused algorithm exercise and a fix the bug in this code exercise. Exercises were quite accessible and was even allowed to resubmit one of them because of a off-by-1 mistake.

* On-site:
- Interview with Recruiter (0.5hrs): talking about your objectives, previous experiences, more details about the company.
- Interview with Tech Lead (1hr): general questions around different tech stacks you've worked with, high-level explanations of different technologies.
- Interview with CTO (1hr): getting to know the history and vision of the company, more personal questions, great chance for deeper questions about tech stack and processes.
- System Design interview (1.5hrs): Describing overall system architecture for a 'clone' of some popular service. Being able to reason about data storage and querying, scalability, reliability, apis, project management.
- Code Challenge interview (1hr): Simple problem involving recursion to be coded on an actual laptop (yours or theirs). Problem is then refined in 3/4 small variations to show you know how to handle changing requirements and actually know how to code and didn't just copy paste some solution.
- Team members interview (0.5hrs): Informal chat with 2 members of the dev team. Great opportunity to get a different viewpoint on the position and the company. Looks for cultural fit.
- Interview with CEO (0.5hrs-1hr): Yet another opportunity to get to know more about the history and about who runs the company. Also a cultural fit test I suspect.

After these stages, if you're successful you're given an offer (on the same day as the last interview on my case) and are asked for 4 references from previous workmates and supervisors/managers.

Candidatura

Ho presentato la mia candidatura personalmente. La procedura ha richiesto più di 4 mesi. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso TravelPerk (Barcellona (Spagna)) a luglio 2018.

Colloquio

The onsite Interview process takes a whole day, with simple problems requiring smart algorithms . Prior to that an online (skype) screening is done. for the onsite you get in front of a panel of people and are presented with several architecture problems. then you get a programming problem and must resolve it on a computer, generating a working program in the language of your choice